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Travelling in the 90s – Gythion and Pylos
It’s time for another installment from my 1993 adventures through Greece. Click here for the story so far… We’ve just left Olympia in the Peloponnese region of Greece and are heading south-east. Here’s...
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Travelling in the 90s – to Corinth
I’m gearing up for more travel in a couple of weeks, but in the meantime here’s the next installment of my Travelling the 90s series. What follows is a lightly edited extract from my original travel...
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Exploring Bodmin Moor
It’s been a whirlwind few days since arriving in the UK. This week I’m staying in Cornwall with a group of friends from home and we’re having a blast. As all of us are writers bound for the World...
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Tintagel – craggy castle on the Cornish coast
Next stop on our Cornish adventure was Tintagel castle – possibly the birthplace of King Arthur, definitely a really cool place to visit. Its vast sprawl atop a rocky promontory, surrounded by stunning...
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South West Coast Path: Instow to Westward Ho!
The South West Coast Path is a 630 mile walk around the coast of SW England, from Minehead in Somerset to Poole in Dorset. As soon as I heard about it, when planning my current trip, I resolved to hike...
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South West Coast Path: Westward Ho! to Clovelly
Many walkers might have sat in the pub for an extra day instead of braving the SW Coast Path in the rain… Or caught the bus instead. But they would have missed out on a unique experience (that might...
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Ancient monuments and a lighthouse on the Penwith Peninsula
One of the essential areas of Cornwall to visit is the Penwith Peninsula — essentially the glob of land at the very south west of England… You know, Penzance, Lands End etc. So of course we did a day...
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Dartmoor: wild and wonderful
Dartmoor. A sprawling wild expanse of sphagnum moss and heather and sheep and rocky tors and babbling brooks. Of mist and mud and ancient monuments. Remarkably, it’s the product of man, who cleared it...
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A miscellany of adventures in SW England
After spending a couple of weeks in Cornwall and Devon, I have had many random and wonderful experiences. So in this post I’m covering a miscellany of adventures not hitherto covered in recent posts....
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No longer dreaming of a white Christmas
Christmas is coming. *cue music* Hark the herald angels sing! To commemorate the season, we’re harking back to a particularly memorable past Christmas or winter holiday. Since Christmas falls in the...
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Fishing community
I’ve been going through my holiday photos and found a couple that speak to this week’s WordPress weekly photo challenge theme of COMMUNITY. These pictures are of the tiny and very picturesque fishing...
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Juxtaposition
Last October I took this photo in Exeter UK during our ‘wall walk’ — a self-guided journey along the ancient Roman/medieval wall that once ringed the town, but which now meaders through the central...
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Travelling in the 90s – Mycenae, Mykonos and Delos
It’s been a while, so I thought I’d resume the tale of my 1993 journey through Greece. We pick up our intrepid travellers in the ancient town of Corinth with only a handful of days left in the country…...
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INSIDE an ancient bronze-age village
One of the things I love about travelling is visiting sites that provide a glimpse into how people used to live. I think the oldest site I’ve ever visited is Skara Brae, a neolithic settlement...
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Travelling in the 90s – London!
We return to the tale of my 1993-1994 Great Adventure, which sees me arrive in London, England, for the first time. There I am, wide-eyed and breathless, early 20s and fresh-faced, let loose in one of...
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Travelling in the 90s – road trip UK
Welcome to the next installment of Travelling in the 90s, which comprises extracts of my 1993-1994 first ever overseas travel journal. Many things have changed since then. Many things have not. It’s...
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Travelling in the 90s – Stratford, Bath, Stonehenge…
More Travelling in the 90s today… and we’ve arrived at one of the most thrilling weeks of the entire UK road trip. Warwick Castle… Stratford-upon-Avon… Bath… Salisbury… Stonehenge. It doesn’t get much...
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Travelling in the 90s – Hadrian’s Wall and a few days in Scotland
Welcome to Travelling in the 90s — the tale of my adventures in Europe, drawn from my original travel journal from 1993-1994… Our fresh-faced 20-something selves have just been road-tripping through...
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Zigzag
Today I bring you two very different images from my journeys through Spain a few years ago, inspired by the latest WordPress weekly photo challenge theme, which is ZIGZAG. The featured image (above) is...
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Textures… of France and Spain
I love photographing textures. I’m sure there are others who do a much better job of it, but I make the attempt all the same. Especially when I’m travelling, because that’s often when I’m looking and...
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